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of the author (1901, p. 14), will illustrate some of the 

 temperature characteristics : 



TABLE III. TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL IN SEVERAL LOCALI- 

 TIES IN RUSSIA AND IN THE UNITED STATES l 



1 The figures in this table are averages of many years' observations and are given 

 by the following authorities : Wild, Die Temperaturverhaltnisse des Russischen Rei- 

 ches, Tabellen, S. LXXII-CCXL, and Die Regenverhaltnisse dea Russischen 

 Reiches, S. 12-28; Kaiserl. Akad. der Wissensch. St. Petersburg, 1881 and 1887. 

 Klossovski, Klimat Odessui (Russian) ; Meteorological Observatory of the Im- 

 perial New Russian University, Odessa, 1893. Moore, Report of the Chief of the 

 Weather Bureau, U. S. Department of Agriculture, for 1896-7, Washington, D. C., 

 1897. 



The normal mean temperature for January, July, and for 

 the year, and also the normal rainfall for the year and for 

 the growing season (May to September inclusive) , are given 



